Clergy abuse mediation effort launched | Program set up by ex-judge to focus on services for victims (Times Union, Albany, N.Y.)
Abortion:
Doctors may be tried over late abortion | Police investigating the case of a woman whose baby was diagnosed with a cleft lip and palate and aborted beyond the 24-week limit for legal terminations have sent evidence to the Crown Prosecution Service (The Telegraph, London)
The womb as photo studio | Ultrasound images from the womb are increasingly being made not for medical purposes but by companies offering expectant parents a sort of prebirth viewing (The New York Times)
More articles of interest:
It takes a worried man | The political becomes the personal for Christian alt-country guitar hero Buddy Miller (Village Voice)
The sanctity, the piety, the kids | Why do children seem to save some of their most outrageous behavior for the most conservative places? Like, say, church (Anne Louise, The News-Press, Glendale, Ca.)
Italian woman killed by falling crucifix | Maddalena Camillo, 72, was walking in the main square in the village of Sant'Onofrio when the 7-foot-tall metal crucifix toppled from a monument being restored for a religious celebration, police said (Associated Press)
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